Corki

This build guide for Corki is for Duo Bot Lane and is by Cop, a Diamond ranked player on League of Legends and ADC for Team Curse. Corki is a AD ranged carry. What he lacks in crowd control Corki makes up for with AoE damage, great poke, and high DPS.

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I really don't like manamune as an item, especially on corki, it doesn't give you much damage and it's hardly worth it just for the mana. If you're having mana problems you could try running mana regen per level blues instead of magic res per level, that's what I usually do

Probably because it's a skill based match up.Urgot will destroy Corki if he gets unnecessarily caught by an WEQ combo, and Corki will counter Urgot because he has a relatively safe laning phase, which is what Urgot is normally picked for.

Farmers>Pokers>Kill Lanes>Farmers.Corki can play all roles depending on the support, and Urgot is normally a Poker or a Kill Lane.As such, they can act as counters to each other quite well.

I've been playing corki for a while and i notice that taking 3 points out of vampirism and 2 out of sunder for 4 points in sorcery and the one in arcane knowledge is ultimately a nice dps increase especially during the laning phase

You should generally always follow the standard AD carry build of IE Phantom Dancer - You want to be pumping out as much damage as possible. If you need to build items like Atma's / Banshee's you should work on your positioning in fights. Also Quicksilver Sash or cleanse should be enough to get you out of any bad situation.

I like how on this guide Urgot is listed as a counter to Corki, but on the Urgot guide, Corki is listed as a counter to Urgot.

I dont see how Urgot "Counters" Corki, Corki can just jump away if Urgot hits his E making the dmg Urgot can deal nul and void (or just avoid it with the jump), and Corki could probably win in a slug off with his true dmg/ armor shred.

It's a weird match-up. I have problems with Urgot as Corki because you can't always Valkyrie away. It costs too much mana, so you kind of have to just deal with it. You need a good support if you want to beat Urgot. Also, Corki has armor shred making him strong against Urgot. It's weird, either Corki wins the lane phase by killing Urgot or Urgot will outpoke him and kill Corki.

I've been playing Corki a lot lately and think more people need to give him a chance. He's very strong end game because of his passive and I'm also a huge fan of the mobility on his W. Only change I make from this build is skipping the QS Sash and going right from Trinity Force / IE into Last Whisper or another damaging item. I haven't played against a team yet that could shut down the combo of his W / Flash to make having a cleanse from the QS Sash worth giving up the extra damage.

It's an old guide. I still think that armor pen runes are fine, but for some reason my buddy Spellsy says that AD runes are better. Cop will update this guide, I guess.

The guide is not a year old - it is perhaps a "season" old - after a while, AD runes have become more popular & are the "NORM" for AD carries. For Corki, he's pretty much a standard AD carry, and while I think Manamune is a wonderful item still, people seem to take after more popular players with the dorans > infinity edge > phantom dancer > last whisper standard build now.

Corki playstyle has not changed very much, the items vary on a game-by-game basis. Hopefully Cop can provide some more insight - sorry to disappoint you.

I agree with most of this build. I prefer to get sheen before phage. The damage helps a bit and it also helps with early game mana issues. I normally go sheen -> b.f. sword -> tri force -> IE. Either way this is a great build and the items are perfect, I just prefer getting them in a different order I guess.

Not a bad guide, but I found a few errors. In the runes section, you talk about AD seals but use armor. In the runes, masteries, and summoner spells section you talk about why you don't use the mana per 5 because you use tear of the goddess, yet tear of the goddess isn't in the items section. Just asking for some more clarity. Thanks in advance.